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The War (Meant) To End All Wars
WORLD WAR I The War (Meant) To End All Wars
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Use your Graphic Organizer CAUSES OF World War I
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NATIONALISM A DEVOTION TO THE INTERESTS AND CULTURE OF ONE’S NATION
LED TO COMPETITIVE RIVALRIES AMONG NATIONS
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IMPERIALISM EUROPEAN NATIONS HAD BEEN BUILDING EMPIRES
GERMANY, FRANCE, AND BRITAIN COMPETED FOR COLONIES
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MILITARISM THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMED FORCES AND THEIR USE AS A TOOL OF DIPLOMACY BUILD UP OF MILITARY AS A TOOL TO PROTECT EMPIRES LED TO A NAVAL ARMS RACE BETWEEN GERMANY AND BRITAIN
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ALLIANCE SYSTEM TRIPLE ENTENTE: CONSISTED OF FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA (LATER CALLED THE ALLIES) TRIPLE ALLLIANCE: GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND ITALY (CALLED CENTRAL POWERS) IF ONE COUNTRY WAS ATTACKED THE OTHERS WOULD JOIN IN TIED ALL COUNTRIES TOGETHER
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Test Question! Russia withdrew from World War I and the Allies after the Bolsheviks overthrew the government led by Vladimir Lenin with aid from Germany!
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THE ASSASSANATION JUNE 1914, ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND, HEIR TO THE AUSTRIAN THRONE, VISISTED SARAJEVO SERBIAN NATIONALIST NAMED GAVRILO PRINCIP SHOT THE ARCHDUKE AND HIS WIFE
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FRANZ FERDINAND’S CAR 1911 Graf und Stift Rois De Blougne tourer
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CONTINUED AUSTRIA DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM PULLED IN ONCE COUNTRY AFTER ANOTHER
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Assignments: 1. World War I Map. use p. 375. COLOR IT. & 2
Assignments: 1. World War I Map use p *COLOR IT!!!!! & 2. Causes of WWI GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
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Video: World War I
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THE FIGHTING STARTS
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TRENCH WARFARE ARMIES DUG TRENCHES INTO THE GROUND AND FOUGHT FOR MERE YARDS OF GROUND
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NEW HAZARDS FIGHTING MEN WERE SURROUNDED BY FILTH, LICE, RATS, AND POLLUTED WATER STINCH OF DECAYING BODIES “SHELL SHOCK”- AN EMOTIONAL CONDITION THAT MOST NEVER RECOVERED FROM TRENCH FOOT
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FOOT INSPECTION
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In-Class Readings The Western Front: Life in the Trenches
Video: Avoiding Armageddon
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NEW TECHNOLOGY CHANGES WARFARE
Use your Graphic Organizer Technological advances of world war i
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NEW WEAPONS THE BEGINNING OF “MODERN WAR”
POSIONOUS GASES TRENCHES PLANES SUBMARINES ARTILLERY WEAPONRY TANKS TODAY WE WILL TALK ABOUT ; TRENCHES, TANKS & POSIONOUS GASES
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WORLD WAR I TANKS KEY QUESTIONS Why develop the tank?
Advantages and disadvantages? What was it like to be in a tank? What was it like to face a tank?
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Which country developed the first tank used in battle?
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Tanks Tank Production1916-18 YEAR U.K. France Italy U.S.A. 1916 150 -
Germany Italy U.S.A. 1916 150 - 1917 1,277 800 1918 1,391 4,000 20 6 84
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Poison Gas Otto Dix, A German Gas Attack (1924)
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Mustard Gas Most Deadly Gas Active for weeks
Effects: Blisters, Vomiting, Internal Bleeding
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Mustard Gas Wounds
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WWI Machine Guns
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Artillery
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AIR PLANES
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The Battlefield Debut of the Tank
Jig Saw Reading Gas Attack The Battlefield Debut of the Tank Use your group to check your Graphic Organizer Assignment: Write a letter home to your family as a WWI Soldier, describe how advances in technology during World War I impacts your life as a soldier
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THE WAR HITS HOME
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DIVIDED LOYALITIES AMERICA WAS DIVIDED AMOND WHO TO SUPPORT
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BRITISH BLOCKADE BRITAIN USED ITS NAVAL STRENGTH TO BLOCKADE THE GERMAN COAST BY ,000 GERMANS STARVED TO DEATH
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THE U-BOAT RESPOSNSE USING U-BOATS (SUBMARINES) THE GERMANS BEGAN FIRING ON SHIPS FOUND AROUND BRITAIN IN 1915 , A U-BOAT SANK THE BRITISH LINER LUSITANIA 1200 PEOPLE DIED INCLUDING 128 AMERICANS AMERICANS BECOME OUTRAGED
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German U-Boats
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THE UNITED STATES DECLARES WAR
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THE ZIMMERMAN NOTES BRITISH INTERCEPTED A MESSAGE FROM GERMANY SENT TO MEXICO STATED THAT IF MEXICO JOINED GERMANY THEY WOULD HELP MEXICO RECOVER LOST LANDS IN AMERICA
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Mexican land lost to the United States in the Mexican-American War; 1846
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OTHER EVENTS U-BOATS SANK FOUR UNARMED MERCHANT SHIPS
1917 U.S. ENTERS THE WAR
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Use your Graphic Organizers
AMERICA MOBILIZES Use your Graphic Organizers The u.s. prepares for world war i: problems and solutions & Civilian sacrifice supporting the war at home
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RAISING AN ARMY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT- REQUIRED MEN TO REGISTER WITH GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO BE RANDOMLY SELECTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE
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Register for Draft
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MASS PRODUCTION IN ORDER TO TRANSPORT TROOPS AND GOODS THE U.S. NEEDED SHIPS SHIPYARDS BEGAN MASS PRODUCING IN ONE DAY LAUNCHED 95 SHIPS
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AMERICA TURNS THE TIDE THE CONVOY SYSTEM- HEAVY GUARD OF DESTROYERS WOULD ESCORT MERCHANT SHIPS CUT LOSSES IN HALF AMERICAN’S BROUGHT THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE- ENTHUSIASM
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AMERICA GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE
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AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
LED BY GENERAL JOHN PERSHING SOLDIERS NICKNAMED “DOUGHBOYS”
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THE END ARMISTICE SIGNED A TRUCE
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FINAL TOLL 22 MILLION PEOPLE KILLED- HALF OF THOSE WERE CIVILIANS
20 MILLION WERE WOUNDED U.S. LOST 48,000 MEN IN BATTLE LOST 62,000 TO DISEASE
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CONGRESS GIVES POWER TO WILSON
THE WAR AT HOME CONGRESS GIVES POWER TO WILSON
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WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD HELPED PRODUCTION FOR THE WAR
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FOOD ADMINISTRATION HELPED PRODUCE AND CONSERVE FOOD
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION
PROPAGANDA- DESIGNED TO INFLUENCE PEOPLES THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS
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In Germany too…
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ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
-GERMAN-AMERICANS BECAME TARGETS OF ATTACKS -AMERICA STOPPED EVERYTHING THAT WAS GERMAN
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ESPIONAGE ACT A PERSON COULD NOT SAY ANYTHING DISLOYAL, PROFANE, OR ABUSIVE ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
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SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES
FAMOUS COURT CASE THAT UPHELD THE ESPOIONAGE ACT. DECLARED THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT WAS NOT PROTECTED IN TIME OF WAR
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What would happen Today? Is there a Double Standard Today?
No Freedom of Speech? What would happen Today? Is there a Double Standard Today?
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Answer the four (4) corresponding questions on your own
Assignment: Popcorn Reading: Schenk v. United States(1919) Answer the four (4) corresponding questions on your own
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WILSON FIGHTS FOR PEACE
WILSON’S PLAN FOR AVOIDING ANOTHER WAR
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WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS
NO SECRET TREATIES FREEDOM OF THE SEAS LOWER TARIFFS ARMS REDUCTION LIMITS ON COLONIZATION BOUNDARY CHANGES BASED ON NATIONALITY
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CONTINUED CREATION OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS- A FORUM FOR NATIONS TO DISCUSS AND SETTLE GRIEVANCES WITHOUT RESORTING TO WAR Americans were afraid that the League of Nations would draw the U.S. into another War – test question
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REACTION TO WILSON’S PLAN
THE ALLIES REJECTED THE PLAN THEY WERE BENT ON MAKING GERMANY PAY
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THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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KEY ITEMS FROM THE TREATY
ESTABLISHED 9 NEW NATIONS Shifted boundaries in Europe and in the Middle East Punish Germany Limit size of Army(100,00) GERMANY HAD TO RETURN ALSACE-LORRAIN TO FRANCE HAD TO PAY 33 BILLION IN WAR REPARATIONS
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THE TREATY WEAKNESSES Identify at least two (2) provisions from the treaty and predict why they could lead to additional problems following the War. – test question -Hint think of the causes of WWI and which one applies to the treaty
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS WILSON’S MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF HIS 14
THE UNITED STATES (CONGRESS) REFUSED TO JOIN, ISOLATIONISM WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS HAD NO BACKBONE, (MILITARY AND MONEY) THIS WILL LEAD TO WWII
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